Mira's bed time story books consists of only the below. I find it too heavy a reading for a 5 year old but she insists. Her Question for the Day for today.
" If space has no gravity, how do the planets go around the sun and not free fall???"
Answer that !!
Questions on gender from Mira. What would your answer be when caught off guard?
1. Can boyfriends have boyfriends?
2. If Aminah's( her classmate) father said girls cannot live with boys in the same house until they are married, how is it Snow White stayed with 7 boys in one house?
I was revising with Brinda yesterday on electricity. Std 5 chapter. Sources of electricity was dry cell, accumulator,dynamo and solar cells. Drilling deeper i asked
Me: where can you use dry cell?
Brinda: in torchlights,watches.
Me : what do use accumulator s for?
brinda : for starting the car and radio.
Me : good one Brinda. What do use dynamo for?
Brinda: wash clothes and make slime.
Oh dear!!!!
One day before primary 1 entrance exam, Mira my 5 year old told me, Mira: Amma, tomorrow is school exams. Me and Tisha have got it all planned out.
Amma: Oh really? What did you plan?
Mira: First we will go for exam, then we will go and have some food , then go somewhere to play.
Massive planning for a 5 year old. How will it be when she becomes a teen, i wonder?
We sent Mira for a gym camp for the school holidays.When she came home the first day, i asked how many kids in her class. She replied," There was 1 girl who was sweating all the time. You know how i know?". I asked," How Mira?" She replied," She was sparkly and shiny the entire time!!"
LOL... Kids
At what age do kids understand about life and death? Is 4 years to early?
The reason I'm asking this is sometime a month ago, Mira woke up at 4 am and asked me where are asteroids and will they come to earth. I told her to go back to sleep and will explain in the morning. After explaining the following day that asteroids are out side earth, she took it fine but I guess it was still on her mind. The following night before bed she was crying saying asteroids might come to earth. We calmed her and after a few days later, she asked few questions.
1. If asteroids were to come to earth, will they hit land , our house or sea.
( My response:IF it does come, it won't hit our house. We are safe. Might land in the sea far far away.)
2. If it landed in the sea, won't the water splash on us and something might happen to us?( Oops! Yeah but just a splash🤐)
3. Can God see the asteroids coming to earth?( Hmm . Yeah he can)
4. Then why doesn't He stop it?( She's asking me questions on God at 4!! My response was He will stop it from hurting us.. phew)
5. Why can't I see God?( Well luckybi thought about the analogy of how we breathe air but can't see it, but know it's there.)
So my question is - how does this 4 year old wonder so in depth of the Big Picture. Has she time traveled to past or future?
On the same note, my dad showed her a video clip of tsunami in Japan yesterday. After a few hours, my mom found her sobbing thinking about it. Hmmm....
